How does Robert Louis Stevenson explore good and evil in the novel Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde(TM)?

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How does Robert Louis Stevenson explore good and evil in the novel ‘Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’?

In this novel Robert Louis Stevenson has explored many themes as life style and perception as we assume Dr Jekyll is good and harmless because he is a doctor also the medical advances that were happening in the Victorian times were considered evil and bad and as we see in the novel the medicine is used to keep Mr. Hyde from taking over Dr Jekyll body and the biggest theme which is good and evil this was a very big thing in Victorian times and people were closely observed to see if they were normal and good or abnormal and evil.

The Victorian time period was from 1837-1901 and in this time a lot happened Accession of Queen Victoria to the throne,  published ‘’, which led to  and The  known as  murdered and mutilated five (and possibly more)  on the streets of London. All of these are incorporated in the novel ‘Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’.

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Robert Louis Stevenson has chosen to set this book in Soho London which shows transgression by the Soho atmosphere because Soho is a run down place and his house is located in a street in Soho where it is violent, deathly and full of gangs “the fog lifted and showed him a dingy street, a gin palace”   this is contrasted with Mr. Hyde’s house which is ugly and fits in on the out side but on the in side it has been furnished with extravagant luxurious items and has class. The same could be said to ...

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